English
patera
Patera comes from Latin patera ‘a broad, flat dish, saucer, bowl, or vessel’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpatera‘a broad, flat dish, saucer, bowl, or vessel’
- Englishearliest quotation 2020same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpatera‘a broad, flat dish, saucer, bowl, or vessel’
- Englishearliest quotation 2020same form
Earliest quotation: 2020, James R. Zimbelman, David A. Crown: “What caused the transitions from explosive to effusive volcanism…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- ‘to spread out’
pass, mile, pen, petition, repeat, compete, competitor, helicopter, symptom, perpetual, impetus, feather, pennant, petulant, perpetuity, perpetuate, pinion, impetuous, penna, patina, petulance, pata, patella, 82 more
through Proto-Italic *pandō ‘to spread’
expansion, expand, spawn, expanse, 7 more
through Latin pateō ‘to be open, gape’
Today it means
noun A broad, shallow dish used for drinking, primarily in ritual contexts such as libations.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin patera / patera